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PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907.

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PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907.

WITNESSES THOMAS MILTON WALKER, OF BRISTER, ARKANSAS.

IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

Application filed January 3, 1907. Serial No. 350,612.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS MILTON WALKER, a citizen ofthe United States,and a resident of Brister, in the county of Columbia and State ofArkansas, have invented a new and Improved Implement, of whichthefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improved tool or implement of a constructionadapting it as a convenient device for many purposes, such for example,as a grubber, canthook, fence-jack and post-hole-digger. An effectiveimplement of this character is particularly useful to the farmer andothers who have constant need of such a device, and which it is theobject of this invention to provide Reference is to be had to theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my improved implement when usedas a grubber in extracting stumps; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of theimplement showing the manner in which it is used as a canthook; Fig. 3is a perspective view illustrating the device as a fence-jack; Fig. 4 isa side elevation of the implement, partly in section, showing the mannerin which it is used as a post-hole-digger; Fig. 5 is a fragmentary,sectional view on an enlarged scale when the implement is in theposition illustrated in Fig. l, and Fig. 6 is a side view on an enlargedscale of one of the shovels or gouge-shaped members.

The implement embodies in its preferred form of construction two leversor handles 1,1 of suitable length, and preferably tapering to a point astheir outer ends are approached. On the inner face of one of the members1 near its inner end is provided a recess 2, in which the eye of aneye-bolt 3 is pivotally connected by a cross-pin 4. The opposite lever 1is revolubly mounted on the body of the eye-bolt 3 and is retainedthereon by the head of the bolt or other convenient device. Thisconnection, as is obvious, provides for the pivotal movement of thelevers in the same plane and in planes at right angles to each other.

Secured to the inner ends of both the levers 1, by rivets or otherwell-known devices, are shovels or sheet metal gouge-shaped members 5,positioned to have their inner curved faces opposed to each other whenthe levers 1, 1 are arranged side by side, as illustrated in Figs. 2, 3and 4. One of the shovels or gouge-shaped members 5 is provided at itspoint with a V-shaped notch 6, forming a claw for extracting pm'poses.

Fixed to the outer face of the lever having the claw, preferably inalinement with the eye-bolt 3, is a staple 7, forming a pivotalconnection for a long, metal hook 8, the latter coacting with the clawwhen the implement is used as a grubber, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Inthis application of the device, the opposite lever is swung on the bodyof the pivot-bolt 3 to lie flat on the ground and fonn a fulcrum for theopposite lever in the extracting operation.

For retaining the hook 8 in an inoperative and outofthe-way position, astaple 9 driven into the outer face, is provided above the pivotalconnection of the same lever 1. This staple forms a keeper for a ring10, which is adapted to be passed over the outer end of the hook andhold it in the position shown in Figs. 3 and I.

For holding the levers side by side and from pivotal movement, a staple11. is driven into the outer end of one of them, and acts as a keeperfor a ring or link 12, the latter being adapted to be passed over theouter ends of both of the levers and slid to an inward position, asshown in Figs. 2 and 3. In the former figure, the device is shown in useas a cant-hook, in which case after the levers are locked together, thehook 8 is unfastened and brought to the position shown, with the lowerend of the adjacent gouge or shovel 5 acting as a fulcrum. For jackingup a rail or fence to replace a broken rail by a new one, or for otherPUIPOSGS, the hook is secured in inoperative position and the leversspread apart in the same plane at their outer ends to bring the shovels5 together. The shovels are then inserted between two adjacent rails ofthe fences and the levers forced together and locked, as shown in Fig.3, thus separating the lower from the upper sets of rails and admittingof the broken rail to be readily removed and replaced.

When the implement is used as a post-hole-digger, the hook S is securedin inoperative position and the levers 1. unlocked as illustrated inFig. 1, the shovels 5 being separated. The device is then reciprocatcdto force the points of the shovels or gouges into the earth and theupper ends of the handles pulled from each other to draw the shovelstogether before they are withdrawn. This action, as is obvious, cuts thedirt from the bottom of the hole, admitting of the same to be readilyremoved.

Although I have described the invention in detail in order that itsconstruction and many uses might be fully understood, I, nevertheless,regard the precise embodiment as not material and consider that I amentitled to such modifications as fall within the scope of the annexedclaims.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. An implement of the character described comprising a lever, a boltpivoted to one of the levers, a second lever revolubly mounted on thebody of the bolt, and gougeshaped members secured to the inner end ofeach lever.

2. An implement of the character described comprising a lever, a boltpivoted to one of the levers, a second lever revolubly mounted on thebody of the bolt in a plane at right angles to the first, a claw at theinner end of one of said levers, and a hook pivotally connected to thelever having the claw.

3. An implement of the character described comprising two leversconnected together to swing in the same plane and planes at right anglesto each other, and a gougeshaped member secured to the inner end of eachlever.

at. An implement or the character described comprising two levers, meansconnecting the two levers together adapting them to be swung in the sameplane and in planes at right angles to each other, a gouge-shaped sheetmetal member secured to the inner end of each lever, and means "forlocking the outer ends of the levers together.

5. An implement of the character described comprising two levers havinggougeshaped sheet metal members secured to the inner ends thereof, abolt pivotally connected to the innerend of one of said levers andhaving the body thereof passing through the other lever, and a hookpivoted to the outer face of one of the levers in alinement with thebolt.

6. A11 implement oi the character described comprising two levers, sheetmetal members secured to the inner end of each lever, means connectingthe two levers together, adapting them to be swung; in the same plane orin planes at right angles to. each other, a hook pivotally connected tothe outer face of one of the levers, and means for lockingthe hook ininoperative position.

7. An implement of the character described comprising two levers, sheetmetal members secured to the inner end of each lever, meansconnectingthe two levers together, adapting them to be swung in the sameplane or in planes at right angles to each other, a hook pivotallyconnected to the outer face of one of the levers, means for locking thelevers together, and means for locking the hook in inoperative position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS MILTON WALKER.

Witnesses A. R. MULLINS, WM. GIBSON.

